Civil and Environmental Engineering

www.gprmax.com

• D.Phil. in Electronics- University of York, UK, 1997
• University Degree (Ptychio) in Geology - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1991

• Member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)
• Member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists(SEG)

• Engineering Geophysics
• Application of GPR for NDT of structures
• Computational Electromagnetics with emphasis in the FDTD method
• Numerical modelling of GPR

• 1978 BEng (1st class), Civil Engineering, University of Liverpool
• 1990 MA, University of Oxford
• 1982 PhD, University of Liverpool
• 2007 DSc, University of Oxford

• 1988 European Engineer, Eur Ing
• 2014 Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, FREng
• 1985 Chartered Engineer, CEng
• 2003 Fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers, FICE
• 2015 Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE

• Coastal and Offshore Engineering
• Environmental Fluid Mechanics
• Marine Power Resource Assessment

• Alistair was Head of Civil & Environmental Engineering at University College Cork from 2011-13, where he was the Founding Director of the SFI Centre for Marine Renewable Energy Ireland.
• Alistair Borthwick is Professor of Applied Hydrodynamics at The University of Edinburgh, an Emeritus Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and holds Adjunct Professorships at Peking University and NUI Galway.
• Alistair was the founding Chairman of the Editorial Board of the ICE Journal of Engineering and Computational Mechanics.
• Professor Borthwick's research interests include environmental fluid mechanics, flood risk management, coastal processes, offshore engineering, and marine renewable energy.
• Since 1998, he has collaborated with Peking University on all material fluxes in large rivers, and water and wastewater treatment technologies.
• Alistair Borthwick has almost 40 years' engineering experience. He helped design the Hutton Tension Leg Platform, which won the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement in 1984.
• He was previously Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he worked for 21 years from 1990-2011.

• 1978 BEng (1st class), Civil Engineering, University of Liverpool
• 1990 MA, University of Oxford
• 1982 PhD, University of Liverpool
• 2007 DSc, University of Oxford

• 1988 European Engineer, Eur Ing
• 2014 Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, FREng
• 1985 Chartered Engineer, CEng
• 2003 Fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers, FICE
• 2015 Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE

• Coastal and Offshore Engineering
• Environmental Fluid Mechanics
• Marine Power Resource Assessment

• Alistair was Head of Civil & Environmental Engineering at University College Cork from 2011-13, where he was the Founding Director of the SFI Centre for Marine Renewable Energy Ireland.
• Alistair Borthwick is Professor of Applied Hydrodynamics at The University of Edinburgh, an Emeritus Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and holds Adjunct Professorships at Peking University and NUI Galway.
• Alistair was the founding Chairman of the Editorial Board of the ICE Journal of Engineering and Computational Mechanics.
• Professor Borthwick's research interests include environmental fluid mechanics, flood risk management, coastal processes, offshore engineering, and marine renewable energy.
• Since 1998, he has collaborated with Peking University on all material fluxes in large rivers, and water and wastewater treatment technologies.
• Alistair Borthwick has almost 40 years' engineering experience. He helped design the Hutton Tension Leg Platform, which won the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement in 1984.
• He was previously Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he worked for 21 years from 1990-2011.

Dr Pavlos Tafidis is a Lecturer in Transport (Systems) Engineering at The School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh. His work integrates various disciplines, enhancing his comprehensive approach to transport planning and engineering. He led the "BikeHood" project, supported by the Science Foundation of Ireland, which focused on developing Ireland's first cycling neighborhood. This initiative actively engaged communities in the design process, utilizing advanced technologies such as digital twins and virtual reality.

He has been involved in numerous national and international research projects that concentrate on smart and sustainable mobility, including the "REALLOCATE" project, supported by the Horizon 2020 framework, and "CISMOB", funded by Interreg Europe. His current research is dedicated to empowering citizens by developing accessible and inclusive mobility solutions. Through his work, he aims to provide equitable transport infrastructure that enhances urban livability and ensures sustainability for all.

PhD in Transport Engineering | Hasselt University (2022)

M.Sc in Transport Planning | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2015)

M.Eng in Transportation | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2013)

Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece

Member of the Association of Transportation Engineers of Greece

(CIVE10033) Transport Engineering 3  

Role: Course Organizer

Programme: BEng/MEng Civil Engineering | School of Engineering

Years: 2024–present

(EFIE11345) Transport and Society

Role: Course Organizer

Programme: MSc Future Infrastructure, Sustainability and Climate Change | Edinburgh Future Institute

Years: 2024–present

(PGEE11263) Multi-Scale Energy Demand

Role: Lecturer 

Programme: MSc Sustainable Energy Systems | School of Engineering

Years: 2024–present

https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/pavlos-tafidis

Dr Pavlos Tafidis is a Lecturer in Transport (Systems) Engineering at The School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh. His work integrates various disciplines, enhancing his comprehensive approach to transport planning and engineering. He led the "BikeHood" project, supported by the Science Foundation of Ireland, which focused on developing Ireland's first cycling neighborhood. This initiative actively engaged communities in the design process, utilizing advanced technologies such as digital twins and virtual reality.

He has been involved in numerous national and international research projects that concentrate on smart and sustainable mobility, including the "REALLOCATE" project, supported by the Horizon 2020 framework, and "CISMOB", funded by Interreg Europe. His current research is dedicated to empowering citizens by developing accessible and inclusive mobility solutions. Through his work, he aims to provide equitable transport infrastructure that enhances urban livability and ensures sustainability for all.

PhD in Transport Engineering | Hasselt University (2022)

M.Sc in Transport Planning | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2015)

M.Eng in Transportation | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2013)

Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece

Member of the Association of Transportation Engineers of Greece

(CIVE10033) Transport Engineering 3  

Role: Course Organizer

Programme: BEng/MEng Civil Engineering | School of Engineering

Years: 2024–present

(EFIE11345) Transport and Society

Role: Course Organizer

Programme: MSc Future Infrastructure, Sustainability and Climate Change | Edinburgh Future Institute

Years: 2024–present

(PGEE11263) Multi-Scale Energy Demand

Role: Lecturer 

Programme: MSc Sustainable Energy Systems | School of Engineering

Years: 2024–present

https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/pavlos-tafidis

Melis joined the University of Edinburgh in April 2024. Her research mainly focuses on how geostructures can contribute to the sustainability of human activities and resilience to future climate change and energy-related challenges. Her research activities span across a range of topics including in-situ and laboratory testing of soils and soil-structure interfaces in isothermal and non-isothermal conditions, as well as development of numerical tools for the analysis and design of geostructures. During her PhD at Virginia Tech (USA) and her postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), she worked on Energy Geostructures Technology, which is an innovative way of using renewable energy resources by combining geothermal heat exchange and structural foundation support. Her PhD research received several awards by USUCGER, Geo-Institute and ADSC. For her postdoctoral contributions to EPFL, she was awarded “Recognition for Exceptional Services”. She recently received the Bright Sparkle Award 2023 from the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University – Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering, August 2016, Virginia, USA
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University – M.Sc. in Geotechnical Engineering, January 2012, Virginia, USA
• Bogazici University – B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, May 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

• Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College
• Member of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Talent Peer Review College
• Member of the Technical Committee on Energy Geotechnics (TC308) of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)
• Member of the International Energy Agency Working Group 14 (Geothermal Heating and Cooling Energy)
• Member of the Cost Action CA21156 - european network for FOstering Large-scale ImplementAtion of energy GEostructure (FOLIAGE)
• Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment

Geotechnical Engineering 2

Professor Pankaj obtained his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, masters from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and PhD from University of Wales Swansea. He is the Deputy Head of the Institute for Bioengineering at Edinburgh University. He established and leads the Edinburgh Computational Biomechanics research group. He has research collaborations with universities around the globe and his research has been supported by international organisations, the industry and UK funding councils.

In his role as International Dean for South Asia he provides leadership in the development of a strategy to shape activities, partnerships and priorities to enhance the University’s engagement with the region.

Research supervised by him has received a number of awards:

• Best PhD thesis in In silico Medicine awarded by Virtual Physiological Human institute (VPHi) (Belgium) to PhD student F. Levrero-Florencio (2018)
• DePuy Best Medical Engineering PhD, runners-up prize awarded by Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) to PhD student F. Levrero-Florencio (2018).
• British Orthopaedic Research Society's International Travelling Research Fellowship for Young Investigators awarded to Alisdair MacLeod for his PhD research (2016).
• Best presentation award from the Scottish Committee for Orthopaedics and Trauma at their annual meeting to MD student C Scott (2015).
• British Orthopaedic Association's Hip and Knee Reconstruction Fellowship awarded to MD student C Scott (2015).
• Best Poster Award at the 2016 British Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting, for the study entitled \the changing microarchitecture of trabecular bone with high strain" (authors: Wallace, Manda, Sales, Simpson and Pankaj).
• IMechE/Vicon prize for the best Medical Engineering Project awarded to MD student C Scott (2013).
• Best Paper Award at the 2011 International Conference of Systems Biology and Bioengineering for the paper entitled “Computational Modelling of Magnetic Resonance Elastography Shear Wave Behaviour through Atherosclerotic Plaque with Disease Development" (authors: Thomas-Seale, Pankaj, Hoskins and Roberts).
• Robertson Medal for the best research proposal from Carnegie Trust awarded to PhD student FE Donaldson (2008).
• IMechE/Orthopaedic Research UK award for the best thesis in Medical Engineering awarded to PhD student ATM Phillips (2007).

• PhD University of Wales Swansea
• ME Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
• BTech Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

• Finite Element Methods for Solids and Structures
• Structural Mechanics 2B
• Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

• Mathematical Simulation of the Mechanical Behaviour of Materials
• Solid Mechanics
• Orthopaedic Engineering
• Computational Biomechanics
• Finite Element Analysis
• Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

• Dean International (South Asia) for The University of Edinburgh
• Deputy Head of the Institute for Bioengineering, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh